How to Use limestone in a Sentence

limestone

noun

• If that were true, the groundwater may have eroded some of the limestone, causing caverns to form.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2024
• Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the slabs of limestone next to tranquil swimming spots—just don’t leave anything behind.
  — Abigail Rosenthal, Chron, 13 May 2022
• Masons cut limestone from quarries near Paris and transported blocks by horse cart to the capital.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2024
• Only accessible by foot or sea, the sandy crescent is backed with limestone cliffs housing cavernous grottoes.
  — Mary Winston Nicklin, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• Deep in southern France, near the small town of Malataverne, is a limestone cave called Grotte Mandrin.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2022
• On the other end of that makeshift entryway lay an ancient chamber hewn out of the limestone bedrock that led by staircase to another lower room.
  — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2022
• His black limestone grave marker was found in the graveyard outside of Jamestown Memorial Church.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024
• The chamber, carved into limestone bedrock, stretches for 98 feet (30 meters) beneath the house.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 May 2022
• The terrain is decidedly jungly, with lush broad-leaved forest dominating most of the slopes and limestone crags giving way to hundreds of caves.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 7 May 2022
• Multilevel limestone patios also enhance the indoor/outdoor feel of the home and provide great space for entertaining.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 May 2022
• Wander through the immense limestone walls, admiring the work of artists such as Cézanne and Kandinsky which are projected around you, in time to music.
  — Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• His team found ideal soils with limestone deposits and cooling Pacific breezes in the Bentrock Vineyard in Sta.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2024
• This is because the breakdown of limestone into cement also releases CO2 as a byproduct.
  — Mark Le Dain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
• Large textured limestone blocks are utilized at the main façade and grand fireplaces to create a strong material presence, a sense of solidity and permanence.
  — Kody Boye, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2024
• The house is on a beach and has these big limestone cliffs all around.
  — Emily Zemler, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2023
• The pendant lights are by Serge Mouille and the floor is made of three types of limestone.
  — Monique Valeris, ELLE Decor, 11 July 2022
• The name Jewett House is etched in limestone above the front door, Prince John said.
  — Candace Taylor, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
• Part of the great tomb was once cloaked in granite blocks rather than limestone.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• That heat could then be used to, say, heat a limestone kiln to make cement.
  — TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
• Sandstone turned to sand and limestone cracked, crumbling the very old and the not very old at all alike.
  — Vivian Yee, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• This comes from vineyards in Touraine, on soils of clay, limestone and flint (the prized silex of the Loire Valley).
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2024
• The mud had limestone bits, and dandelion and foxtail did much of the work of holding the soil in place.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Instead of sand, there are slabs of limestone and the famous blue-and-white striped beach chairs to lounge in.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 17 June 2022
• The flutings are grooves drawn by the fingers of ice age humans across the soft limestone cave walls.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
• The marl and limestone bluffs are steep; the wood of the oaks is disconcertingly dark, the scrub spiny.
  — Maria Shollenbarger, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2022
• The hope here is that oyster larva will catch hold of the hard limestone rock and grow reefs there once again.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2023
• The left side of the road is a sheer cut of rock, quartzite, phyllite, and limestone laid bare by dynamite.
  — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
• The best way to increase the pH of your soil is to use garden lime, which is made from crushed dolomitic limestone.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2022
• The limestone rocks, many of them as tall as a school bus, are thought to be the remains of an ancient forest.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• The 100-acre park started as the site of a natural limestone cave.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024